Jewish%20thought for Pesachim 111:3

ועל שלשה לא הודו לו קיצץ דלתות של היכל ושיגרן למלך אשור ולא הודו לו סתם מי גיחון העליון ולא הודו לו עיבר ניסן בניסן ולא הודו לו:

and they did not agree with him; and he closed up the waters of Upper Gihon,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' v. II Chron. XXXII, 1-4.');">⁷</span> and they did not agree with him;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In both cases he should have trusted in God.');">⁸</span> and he intercalated [the month of] Nisan in Nisan,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ibid. XXX, 1-3. The Talmud holds that he effected this by declaring Nisan an intercalated month, calling it the second Adar, after it (Nisan) had already commenced. (Since the Jewish year which is lunar is some eleven days shorter than the solar year, it is necessary periodically to lengthen it by the intercalation of a second Adar, the last month of the civil year. In ancient times this was done not by mathematical calculation, as nowadays, but according to the exigencies of the moment, but this had to be done before Nisan actually commenced, v. Sanh. ');">⁹</span> and they did not agree with him.

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